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Robert Pearlman

Kennedy Space Center Visitor Complex Welcomes Space Shuttle Atlantis

You're invited to be part of the once-in-a-lifetime Atlantis — Celebrate the Journey event, Friday, November 2, as Kennedy Space Center Visitor Complex welcomes space shuttle Atlantis home. Atlantis is making its 10-mile rolling journey from the Vehicle Assembly Building (VAB) to the Visitor Complex atop the Orbiter Transportation System (OTS). The move will conclude at the new $100-million permanent home under construction for the orbiter. Its new home is set to open next summer.

Highlight of this day-long event includes a three-hour stop at Exploration Park where guests have the opportunity for 360-degree photographs with Atlantis. Additional activities include a NASA celebration ceremony, interactive exhibits promoting the history and future of spaceflight, and displays of spaceflight hardware from past, current and future programs. Exhibitors scheduled to attend include NASA, The Boeing Company, Sierra Nevada Corporation, SpaceX and XCOR Aerospace.

Atlantis — Celebrate the Journey Ticket Opportunity Process: This event requires a special ticket purchase and is considered a blackout day for annual passholders. Tickets go on sale Tuesday, September 18, 2012, at 9 a.m. EDT (1300 GMT) via a link placed on the website. Tickets remain on sale while supplies last. Guests who plan to attend the event need to purchase tickets through the ticket opportunity process. Tickets cannot be purchased by phone.

Editor's note: For discussion of the space shuttle Atlantis exhibit and its July 2013 opening, see here. For discussion of the Astronaut Scholarship Foundation's Astronaut Autograph and Memorabilia Show, which coincides with Atlantis' delivery to the Kennedy Space Center Visitor Complex, see here.

Robert Pearlman

Atlantis — Celebrate the Journey Ticket Opportunity Process

Atlantis – Celebrate the Journey requires a special ticket purchase and is considered a blackout day for annual passholders. Tickets will go on sale Tuesday, Sept. 18, 2012, at 9 a.m. EDT (1300 GMT).

Links will be placed on KennedySpaceCenter.com on Sept. 18 at 9 a.m. to take you to the ticket opportunity webpage.

Due to the high level of interest in tickets, some visitors may experience a virtual waiting room prior to entering the ticket order page. All requests for tickets cannot be served simultaneously. The virtual waiting room will randomly allow access to the ticket order page. Entry into the ticket store does not guarantee that a particular Atlantis viewing package will still be available.

There is a limit of six (6) total tickets per transaction.

Please note: All tickets will be shipped to the billing address where your credit card statement is received. Tickets will be shipped the week of October 12.

GACspaceguy

Interesting, in the first 5 minutes I had to wait. After that evey time I logged in (three times in the last 10 minutes) it took me right to the ticket sales, sales must not be as brisk as was thought.

If you're coming from outside the US and just want to attend the KSC Visitor Complex $50 and ASF Autograph Show $15 on Friday 02 Nov, with parking $10 and international shipping $35, the basic day entry will cost you $113.90 inc tax. Ouch

End of the day and apart from the Adventure package, they still show availability. They sure made it sound like they would sell out like launch tickets, looks not to be the case right now. With there being 7 weeks before the event they will most likely sell out in the end.

A month from today, NASA will make its final delivery of a space shuttle to become a museum display, and the public is invited to celebrate the journey.

On Nov. 2, space shuttle Atlantis will be transported from NASA's Kennedy Space Center in Cape Canaveral, Fla. to the nearby visitor center. The 10 mile (16 kilometer) road trip will take about 11 hours, including a three hour stop to give the public a chance to walk around the spacecraft.

Unofficial map showing the expected route space shuttle Atlantis will travel on Nov. 2 from the Vehicle Assembly Building (right) to the visitor complex.

Robert Pearlman

Guests at Atlantis - Celebrate the Journey will receive a limited edition commemorative coin as well as the opportunity to meet a panel of astronauts for autographs.

GACspaceguy

Just an FYI, my parking placard and tickets arrived via FedEx last Saturday.

The last of NASA's space shuttles to move into a museum will roll over to its Florida retirement home in one week's time.

Next Friday (Nov. 2), space shuttle Atlantis will leave the Kennedy Space Center (KSC), where it launched to space 33 times, to land at the KSC Visitor Complex located just down the road. It won't be the longest trip the shuttle has made, or even the most memorable, but as the last trip of its kind, it will be making history.

"It's only a priceless artifact driving 9.8 miles and weighing about 154,000 pounds," Tim Macy, the director of project development and construction for Delaware North Parks & Resorts, which operates the visitor complex for NASA, said on Thursday (Oct. 25). "We've been planning for this a long, long time."

NASA's space shuttle Atlantis has again reached its "final stop," and this time, it's for good.

On Friday (Nov 2.), the space agency's last shuttle to fly in space became the last to be delivered to a museum as Atlantis arrived at NASA's Kennedy Space Center Visitor Complex to begin its new life as a dramatically-displayed centerpiece of a $100 million exhibit scheduled to open in July 2013.